Wednesday May 16th 2018Tim
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Some of us might
be old enough to remember when the important daily news
was all about Sharks biting scantily clad people at the
seaside, toddlers dying from heat after being locked in
cars, Grannies getting mugged, film stars getting
arrested following erratic behavior, tornadoes in
somewhere like Owensboro, the inevitable nonsense about
disease resistant Tomatoes. Sometimes you might read
about the President and occasionally there was something
positive, if a little suspect, such as a Cat rescuing a
Budgerigar from a burning four story building.
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Then
suddenly it was 21st Century. I remember the panic, the
world was going to end because someone had failed to
advise technical devices that following the 1900's the
2000's would happen, and as a result banks would fail,
clocks would stop, satellites and airplanes would fall
out of the sky and we'd all have go back to 1900 again.
Mind you in November of 1918 the First World War ended,
so we got that to look forward to and in 1920 the
Nineteenth Amendment was adopted which meant girls could
join us boys at the voting booths to elect Warren
Harding who dies of a heart attack in 1923, which leaves
us Calvin Coolidge and the slide toward the Great
Depression to look forward to.
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